vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-21836: kernel: io_uring/kbuf: re-using old struct io_buffer_list may lead to a use-after-free situation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 7, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/kbuf: reallocate buf lists on upgrade

IORING_REGISTER_PBUF_RING can reuse an old struct io_buffer_list if it
was created for legacy selected buffer and has been emptied. It violates
the requirement that most of the field should stay stable after publish.
Always reallocate it instead.

Solution

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